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# Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 15.5

Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 15.5

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [15.5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.1)

atha niṣkevalyam /

> Now follows the Niṣkevalya recitation.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> xv. 4. (Next) the Niṣkevalya. Both before and after are many gods mentioned in recitation; but the Niṣkevalya is Indra's only; that is why the Niṣkevalya has its name. In that he begins with a Bṛhatī, and he who gives heat here is connected with the Bṛhatī, thus he makes him to prosper with his own symbol. He makes two into three by repetition; that is the symbol of generation; two as it were are there at first, then they are propagated. Having recited the strophe, he recites the antistrophe; the strophe is the self; the antistrophe the offspring; therefore he should make the antistrophe to be corresponding in form; a corresponding one is born in his offspring, not one who does not correspond. He recites a supplementary verse; the supplementary verse is breath; verily thus in himself he places breath. He recites a Pragātha; the Pragātha is cattle; verily (it serves) to obtain cattle. Moreover the Bṛhatī Pragātha is expiration and inspiration; verily thus he places expiration and inspiration in himself. ‘I shall proclaim the manly deeds of Indra’ is the Niṣkevalya of fifteen verses; the thunderbolt is fifteenfold; verily thus with the thunderbolt he smites the evil of the sacrificer. In the middle of it he places a Nivid; in the middle of the body is food placed; then he recites Nivids; the Nivids are the breaths; verily thus he places the breaths in himself. Each quarter verse of these he recites, taking it separately; verily thus each breath he places in himself; with the last he utters the Praṇava; thus he lets go this breath; therefore all the breaths breathe along this breath. Now they say ‘The Nivids are food’; therefore should he recite them quietly, for not hastening as it were he eats unpleasant food. He should recite the concluding verse in a lower tone; so is his wife unlikely to fall away. (He should recite) in still lower a tone; so does his wife become as it were not uplifted in her mind. In that he gives a horse, and the horse is Indra, for the hymn is connected with Indra, verily thus he delights Indra. The strophe is the self; the antistrophe offspring; the supplementary verse the wife; cattle the Pragātha; the hymn the body; the Nivid what is within the body; the concluding verse a support; the offering verse food.  
> — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)

### [15.5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.2)

bahvyo devatāḥ prācyaḥ śasyante bahvya ūrdhvāḥ / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> Many deities are recited before; many after.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.3)

atha etad indrasya eva niṣkevalyam /

> Then this \[recitation\] belongs exclusively to Indra.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.4)

tan niṣkevalyasya niṣkevalyatvam / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> That is the exclusivity of the Niṣkevalya.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.5)

atha yad bṛhatyā pratipadyate /

> Now as to the fact that he begins with a Bṛhatī:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.6)

bārhato vā eṣa ya eṣa tapati /

> he who shines yonder is connected with the Bṛhatī.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.7)

tad enam svena rūpeṇa samardhayati / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> Thereby he furnishes him with his own form.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.8)

dve tisraḥ karoti punar ādāyam /

> He makes two verses into three by taking up \[verses\] repeatedly.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.9)

tat prajātyai rūpam /

> That is a symbol of procreation.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.10)

dvāv iva vā agre bhavataḥ / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> For there are two, as it were, at the beginning;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.11)

tata upaprajāyate /

> then offspring is produced.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.14)

pratirūpam anurūpam kurvīta /

> He should make an anurūpa verse corresponding to it.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.15)

pratirūpo ha eva asya prayājām ājāyate na apratirūpaḥ / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> Indeed, offspring corresponding to him is born, not one unsuited.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.16)

dhāyyām śaṃsati /

> He recites the inserted verse.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.17)

prāṇo vai dhāyyāḥ /

> The inserted verse is the vital breath.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.18)

prāṇam eva tad ātman dhatte / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> Thereby he places the vital breath in himself.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.19)

pragātham śaṃsati /

> He recites the pragātha.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.20)

paśavo vai pragāthaḥ /

> The pragātha is cattle.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.21)

paśūnām eva āptyai / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> \[It is\] for the attainment of cattle.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.22)

atho prāṇa apānau vai bārhataḥ pragāthaḥ /

> Moreover, the Bṛhatī pragātha is the out-breath and the in-breath.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.23)

prāṇa apānāv eva tad ātman dhatte / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> Thereby he places the out-breath and the in-breath in himself.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.24)

indrasya nu vīryāṇi pra vocam iti pañcadaśarcam niṣkevalyam /

> The Niṣkevalya recitation consists of fifteen verses, \[beginning\]: 'Now I shall proclaim the heroic deeds of Indra.'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.25)

pañcadaśo vai vajraḥ / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> The thunderbolt has fifteen parts.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.26)

vajreṇa eva tad yajamānasya pāpmānam hanti /

> With the thunderbolt he thereby smites the evil of the sacrificer.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.27)

tasya madhye nividam dadhāti /

> He inserts the nivid in the middle of it.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.28)

madhye vā idam ātmano annam dhīyate / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> For food is placed in the middle of this body.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.29)

atha nividaḥ śaṃsati /

> Then he recites the nivids.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.30)

prāṇā vai nividaḥ /

> The nivids are the vital breaths.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.31)

prāṇān eva tad ātman dhatte /

> Thereby he places the vital breaths in himself.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.32)

tāsām eka ekam padam avagrāham śaṃsati / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> He recites them word by word, pausing \[after each\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.33)

eka ekam eva tat prāṇam ātman dhatte /

> One by one, indeed, he thereby places the vital breaths in himself.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.34)

uttamena praṇauti /

> With the last \[word\], he pronounces the syllable oṃ.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.35)

idam eva tat prāṇam utsṛjate / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> Thereby he releases this breath.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.36)

tasmādd hi imam prāṇam sarve prāṇā anuprāṇanti /

> Therefore all vital breaths breathe along after this breath.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.37)

atho annam nivida ity apy āhuḥ / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> Moreover, they also say: 'The nivids are food.'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.38)

tasmād enā āratam śaṃset /

> Therefore he should recite them with pauses.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.5.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.5.39)

atvaramāṇa iva hi pratikāminam anna adyam atti / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> For without haste, as it were, one eats food according to desire.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (2)

- [Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-keith.15.p10) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.15.5.1) — English, machine translation

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